English

Automorphic scalar fields in two-dimensional de Sitter space

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2023-01-12 v2 High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

We study non-interacting automorphic quantum scalar fields with positive mass in two-dimensional de Sitter space. We find that there are no Hadamard states which are de Sitter invariant except in the periodic case, extending the result of Epstein and Moschella for the anti-periodic case. We construct the two-point Wightman functions for the non-Hadamard de Sitter-invariant states by exploiting the fact that they are functions of the geodesic distance between the two points satisfying an ordinary differential equation. We then examine a certain Hadamard state, which is not de Sitter invariant, and show that it is approximately a thermal state with the Gibbons-Hawking temperature when restricted to a static region of the spacetime.

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@article{arxiv.2207.13202,
  title  = {Automorphic scalar fields in two-dimensional de Sitter space},
  author = {Atsushi Higuchi and Lasse Schmieding and David Serrano Blanco},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2207.13202},
  year   = {2023}
}

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33 pages, 2 figures, published version

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